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"I look upon that term as somewhat objectionable, but I fawncy in the vernacular of college life it is one that is quite expressive." "I'm not trying to boot-lick you or any other professor!" retorted Will, now feeling angry and insulted as well. "I didn't stay here to-day because I wanted to. You yourself asked me to do it. And I asked you a perfectly fair question.
He's not half so bad as you think. Try it; I did." "He'll think I'm trying to boot-lick." "No, he won't. You can run if you have to, can't you?" demanded Wagner. "You've got a good stride, and, like trying for the track team, you've nothing to lose and everything to gain." For a time after the departure of Wagner, Will Phelps sat thinking over the stirring words of his visitor.
If I'm to be shut out of the exam I mean the examination as you seem to think I will, anyway, I don't see any use in my trying any more." The expression on the professor's face became instantly harder as he said, "I fawncy the effort to curry favor with the various members of the faculty is not very popular with the student body." "Do you think I'm trying to 'boot-lick'?" demanded Will quickly.
In all matters of discipline, or of anything else, he was with the captain, for though brutal he was but a cowardly fellow and ever ready to fawn upon his master, "boot-lick" him as the sailors termed it.
The Quartier came, squinted through the fingers, and praised and dispraised, after its wont. The Symbolists sneered and told Peter to his teeth he was a Philistine; they said you can't boot-lick Nature: you've got to bully her, demand her soul, make her give you her Sign!
And when his room-mate scowled as he heard of the professor's insinuation that the young freshman was trying to "boot-lick," Will's anger broke forth afresh. "What's the use in my trying, I'd like to know?" he demanded. "I've never tried harder in my life than I have for the last three or four weeks. And what does old Splinter have to say about it?
"I think we are now well started on the way to becoming useful members of the Army." "What do you think of our new leader?" one of Bert Dodge's late supporters asked that young man after the meeting had broken up. "We're going to have a boot-lick president," growled Bert. "Then there's a strong boot-lick sentiment in the class," returned the other cadet. "But I think Mr.
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